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How to get this type of window to select folder

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:35:42 GMT

you can get a window to select folder location via getSavePath

but I want to know how can we get the window which looks similar to what is in the screenshot?

Regards

Re: How to get this type of window to select folder

Swordslayer — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:51:41 GMT

(dotNetObject "System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog").ShowDialog()

Re: How to get this type of window to select folder

miauuuu — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:41:32 GMT

(
	local openFileRoll = dotNetObject "System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog"		
	
	openFileRoll.title = "Select Files"
	openFileRoll.Multiselect = true
	openFileRoll.Filter = "MAX (*.max)|*.max"
	openFileRoll.FilterIndex = 1
	openFileRoll.RestoreDirectory = true
	
	result = openFileRoll.showDialog()
	result.ToString() 
	if (result.Equals result.OK) do 
	(
		print openFileRoll.fileNames
	)
)

Re: How to get this type of window to select folder

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 04:43:44 GMT

Thank you guys for the prompt response. Really appreciate it! 🙂

Re: How to get this type of window to select folder

Siger_ — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:38:12 GMT

I think your image show FolderBrowserDialog 🙂

The method of use is very similar to that described above. Only will return the result not filenames, but the path to the directory.

Re: How to get this type of window to select folder

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 10:50:23 GMT

You're right. I did try FolderBrowserDialog but it displayed folder selection in tree view 😕

Re: How to get this type of window to select folder

Siger_ — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:29:41 GMT

Yes, it is default limitations. Alternatively, you can write your own (not very complicated).

Some other options:

Use Microsoft.Office.Core.FileDialog //Inconvenient way

Use SaveFileDialog with some trick. C# example:

// Prepare a dummy string
string zeroFileName = "Here";
var sfd = new SaveFileDialog();
sfd.FileName = zeroFileName;
if(sfd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
    // Here's your save directory
    string savePath = Path.GetDirectoryName(sfd.FileName);
    // Do whatever
}

Use WindowsAPICodePack. C# example:

var dlg = new Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Dialogs.CommonOpenFileDialog();
dlg.IsFolderPicker = true;

Another example: https://www.medo64.com/2011/12/openfolderdialog/

Also example: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15059/C-File-Browser

etc, etc, etc...

Re: How to get this type of window to select folder

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:54:30 GMT

thank you!!! 🙂